Jose Antonio Bengoechea

Jose Bengoechea Anduiza (December 1861 – November 12, 1921) was a Basque-American born in Bedarona, Biscay, Spain.

His motivation and ambition was seen through his many different roles as a local Basque "king" or "father" in Mountain Home, Idaho, serving as the Vice-President of the Mountain Home Bank and the owner of the finest hotel in the western United States at that time, The Bengoechea Hotel.

Jose first moved to California then to Palo Alto, Nevada to work for the Altube family.

[1] He married in 1915 to Margarita Nachiondo Achabal, a Basque from Ispaster who had arrived at the country in 1912 and resided of Ogden, Utah.

The hotel was subsequently owned by a corporation, run by Victor Yturri married with Cristina Plaza.